Abu Hamza al-Dejaili

Abu Hamza al-Dejaili (1971-2007), born Ramalan Meskin, was a commander of the Islamic State of Iraq. He was killed in 2007 in Operation Bangor during the Iraq War.

Biography
Ramalan Meskin was born in 1971 in Dejail, Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs. Meskin was a veteran of the Gulf War in 1990, and he graduated from college with a degree in civil engineering. However, in 2003, the United States invasion and overthrowing of Ba'athist Iraq and the downfall of Saddam Hussein ended the Arab nationalist rule over Iraq, and he became known as "Abu Hamza al-Dejaili" after he joined the Iraqi insurgents. al-Dejaili was originally a moderate Muslim who supported the Ba'ath Party, but he later became a follower of Wahhabism, and he became a commander of the Islamic State of Iraq. In 2007, he was killed in Operation Bangor by the US Marine Corps in the killzone of the firefight.